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Media Life
May 30, 2003
Rating the season finales, tops to flops
Best: ABC's 'Alias' and WB's 'Dawson's Creek'
by Dan Jewel
Finale season is high-pressure time for network executives. Viewers expect months-long storylines to be neatly wrapped up, but also demand a shock or two — if not an outright cliffhanger — to lure them back in the fall.
If that’s not enough, shows are desperate to score eyeballs simply because it’s May sweeps.
But this season a surprising number of the top TV shows threw together lackluster last episodes.
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But enough of the disappointments. The best finale of the season, for the second year running, belonged to ABC’s spy series “Alias.”
(The “Six Feet Under” finale is still to come — but hey, it’s not TV, it’s HBO, as they say, so it doesn’t really count.)
Supersized to two hours that never dragged, “Alias” wrapped up loose ends, left others hanging, and featured a deliriously over-the-top fight scene between Sydney and Francie — the evil double who killed and replaced her best friend — that shattered more glass than an “American Idol” audition.
It also ended with a true cliffhanger (albeit one a bit out of left field): Sydney regains consciousness, post-fight, to find herself in Hong Kong. She’s been missing for two years. Her beau and fellow CIA agent has gotten married. Cue “Twilight Zone” theme.
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